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Friday, April 05, 2013
How Creativity Works: Animated video - Wow!
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Labels: animation, AudioPodcastsVideo, CognitionReflection, creativity, drawing, imagination, processes, video, Vimeo
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really. | Granted, and...
Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really. | Granted, and...: "...[T]hough we often lose sight of this basic fact, the point of learning is not just to know things but to be a different person – more mature, more wise, more self-disciplined, more effective, and more productive in the broadest sense" (Wiggins, 2012.03.12)
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Labels: andragogy, curricula, education, higher education
Saturday, March 16, 2013
After Google Reader: Getting organized in Feedly
The transition into Feedly from Google Reader is seamless, and what you can do there is amazing! Once you have your feeds in Feedly, you can add them to new categories, and reorganize them into multiple categories. All will backwash to Google Reader, till it goes belly up on the first of July:
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. (Official Blog, A second spring of cleaning, 2013.03.13)For example, in the screenshot below, there is a Language . . . feed in a topic grouping (Languages and Learning), as well as in another source grouping (Facebook). Likewise, there are social groupings, such as KGUW_13-14, new mash-ups for an instructional cohort, and Learning with Computers, connections from a series of professional development workshops.
It is also possible to rename feeds in Feedly displays. For example, in the Wikispaces (source) category feed listing above, all five current items look the same. The feed names need to be trimmed back to the essential wiki titles, for ease of reading at a glance in Feedly displays.
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Labels: accessibility, Google, graphics, quotations, rss, social networking, tools, usability, websites
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Notes on Schleicher's TED Talk
Schleicher, Andreas. (2012, July). Use data to build better schools. TED Global 2012 [posted February 2013]. Retrieved from: http://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_schleicher_use_data_to_build_better_schools.html
measuring performance in terms of:
extrapolation,
application, and
preparation for change
PISA (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/)
79 school systems
delivering equity and excellence
spending explains less than 20% of the differences
how money gets spent matters a lot more
range of factors
making "choices that value education, their future, more than consumption today"
embracing "diversity with differentiated pedagogical practices"
personalizing "learning opportunities"
maximizing quality of teachers
recruitment, selection, training, … and beyond
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Labels: change, equity, excellence, learning, pedagogy, processes, recruitment, school systems, schools, selection, teachers, teaching, training
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Sources of info. on social collaboration
In the sidebar, MindStream | FCG MindLink . . . points to a number of sites related to social collaboration:
- Beagle Research Group, LLC
- The Social Workplace
- blogs.technet.com/b/drrez/rss.aspx
- Jeff Schertz's Blog
- OpenEnded
- The BrainYard - RSS
- www.dowbrook.com/blog/feed
- Social Business Advisor: Enterprise Collaboration Strategy
- ITSinsider
- Andrew McAfee's Blog
- feeds2.feedburner.com/GilYehuda
- ZDNet | Enterprise Web 2.0 Blog RSS
- ZDNet | Collaboration 2.0 Blog RSS
- The BrainYard - News RSS
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Labels: business, collaboration, enterprises, resources, workplaces
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Google Search for "online teaching"
A Google Search this morning (online teaching), turned up a couple of interesting hits. That is, they were interesting enough for me to review and then tag them in Diigo, a social bookmarking system that I use for micro-blogging instead of Twitter. I've replicated the two tagged entries below.
The first, Starter.co.nz, I thought may be of interest to teachers of young learners, who can browse previews of available resources, and decide whether such a subscription service would be of value to them or their schools. So I posted it to the Classroom 2.0 group, as I was adding it to my list of Educational Technology items.
The second, from the Designing for Learning website, has an intended audience of university faculty members new to online teaching, or interested in imporving their online teaching practices. So I decided to post it to the Moodle4Teachers group, as well as two others to which I belong, and cross-listed in both my Educational Technology and my Faculty Development lists.
When I returned again to the Google Search page, I noticed Google also had spotted "49 [other] items in ... [my] Diigo Library." Please feel free to check them out, too, and if you have any favorites or hot picks of your own, please share them in return.
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Labels: bookmarking, communities, Diigo, elementary education, feedback, groups, higher education, InformationLiteracy, LabelsTagging, links, micro-blogging, projects, resources, reviews, sites, young learners
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Two articles, one after the other: 1 + 1 = 0.5?
- Nearly 90% dissatisfied with Japan's English education: survey – The Mainichi, December 3, 2012; and
- Arama, they didn't! LiveJournal, December 4, 2012
- 21st Century English Langauge Learners, Teachers and Administrators: Ajaan Rob Hatfield, Scoop.it, December 5, 2012
- TESOL Intl Assn, Twitter, December 5, 2012
- Japanese highly unhappy with English education quality in the country – Ida Torres, The Japan Daily Press, December 4, 2012
- TESOL International Association, English Langauge Bulletin; December 12, 2012
- ELT Professionals around the World: Ian Butler, LinkedIn, c. December 15, 2012
If you're interested in reading either the original Rakuten Research press release, or the online report, both dated November 21, 2012; they're here:
- 楽天リサーチ、「日本の英語教育」に関する調査を発表 (press release)
- http://corp.rakuten.co.jp/news/press/2012/1121_02.html
- Apparently not published in English (press releases [2012])
- 日本の英語教育に関する調査 (report)
- http://research.rakuten.co.jp/report/20121121/
- PDF: http://research.rakuten.co.jp/report/pdf/english_20121121.pdf
- Though the filename seems to suggest that the PDF is in English, it isn't.
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Labels: English language, InformationLiteracy, Japan, languages, links, perspectives, pet peeves, research, social media, surveys
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
[1 of] 7 Ways to Avoid Inbox Overload When Collecting Assignments
Richard Byrne made DROPitTOme sound like a winner:
"DROPitTOme works by synchronizing with your Drop Box account. After connecting the two services DROPitTOme provides a url that you can give to others to upload files to your Drop Box account." (Byrne, 2011.09.06, 7 Ways..., DROPitTOme, ¶2).
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Labels: file-sharing, links, media, reviews, tools, video, YouTube
Friday, November 16, 2012
Two face drawing videos
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Labels: blip.tv, drawing, embedding, graphics, media, video, YouTube
Sunday, October 21, 2012
An initial go at embedding from diagram.ly
It's hard to believe how easy it is to use this free diagramming tool. Thanks to who ever it was who pointed it out!
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Labels: applications, embedding, links, media, usability
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Networked Student - YouTube (2008.11.26)
Networked Student - YouTube: Uploaded by Wendy Drexler on Nov 26, 2008
"The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students."
(YouTube description, link added)
The Networked Student (Drexler, 2008)
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Labels: animation, AudioPodcastsVideo, bookmarking, connectivism, courses, InformationLiteracy, IntellectualProperty, presentations, projects, research, resources, rss, social networking, software, tools, wikis, YouTube
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Massive open online c... ?
Curiosity consumed me, and Google provided some intriguing results today (2012.09.11):
- "massive open online course" – over 400,000 hits;
- "massive open online conference" – eight (8) hits, all from 2011;
- "massive open online community" – six (6) hits, all from 2012; and
- "massive multiplayer online games" – over two million hits, for sake of comparison.
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Labels: communities, conferences, courses, games, massive, online, open
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Co-authoring acknowledgement
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Monday, June 04, 2012
Spell with Flickr
Spell with flickr
Thanks to Isabelle Jones for point[ing] this out as a tool capable of supporting "development of both writing and speaking skills" (My Languages, Memory Joggers..., 2012.06.01). Check it out!
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